Sökning: "apocalyptic"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade ordet apocalyptic.
21. Poiski Rusi nevidimoj. Kitezskaja legenda v russkoj kul'ture. 1843-1940
Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation examines the legend of the invisible city of Kitezh, its development and the role that it played in Russian culture between the years 1843 and 1940. It was during this period that the original folk legend was discovered by the Russian intelligentsia and transformed into a new myth about Russia. LÄS MER
22. Kinesernas vänner : en analys av missionens berättelse som ideologi och utopi
Sammanfattning : This thesis intends to answer the question: How was the narrative of the mission in China formulated and used to engender and sustain the fervour of the friends of the mission in the 1890s? It was at this time, with growing unemployment, lack of housing, and of poverty – a time when new and challenging ideas emerge – that the interest in the missions to China awoke. The context of the missionary narrative in this thesis is the Swedish town of Jönköping, a place with a strong religious image and therefore often called “Småland’s Jerusalem”. LÄS MER
23. A Theology for the Bildungsbürgertum : Ritschl in Context
Sammanfattning : The subject of this historical-theological investigation is the German Lutheran theologian Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889). Ritschl’s theology is understood in the context of the de-Christianization of the German Bildungsbürgertum (educated middle class). LÄS MER
24. The green shadow of Christ : a reception-exegetical study of Jesus and Pan in the gospel of Mark
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates presentations of Jesus in the gospel of Mark, mainly chapter 6 and 9, in the light of the juxtaposition of Christ and the Greek nature god Pan. This juxtaposition recurs in the reception history of Pan in Western European culture. LÄS MER
25. A Beautiful Failure : The Event of Death and Rhetorical Disorder in the Gospel according to Mark
Sammanfattning : Is there beauty in rhetorical failure? This study is an exploration of disorder and death in the Gospel according to Mark (Mk). With a surviving fragment from the second-century theologian Papias of Hierapolis, the early reception of Mk locates insights into the composition of Jesus’s death, especially through the concepts of ataxia and rhetorical failure. LÄS MER